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unCoded uses a profit-share license model — no fixed monthly fee. You pay only when your bot produces realized profit. Your other costs are a small VPS (~€10–€15/month) and standard exchange trading fees. There are no usage caps, no feature tiers, no premium add-ons.

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License — profit-share, no fixed fee

Starting rate

30% of realized profitApplied at the start of your operator tenure. Calculated on closed trades only, after exchange fees.

Floor rate

20% of realized profitThe floor your rate trends toward as your tenure grows. A loyalty discount.

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What gets charged

  • 30% → 20% of realized profit on closed trades
  • Calculated after exchange fees (so the bot’s net P&L is the base)
  • Charged on a per-period billing cycle (typically monthly)
  • Your principal — never touched
  • Unrealized gains on open positions — only counted when the trade closes
  • Months when you don’t trade or break even — 0 profit means 0 license fee
  • Drawdown periods — losing months mean no license fee, even though you incurred VPS costs
The incentive alignment: unCoded only earns when you earn. We have zero incentive to push you toward over-trading, AI-hype, or unnecessary features. A stagnant bot benefits nobody — yours and ours.

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Other costs — what to budget

Use voucher code 36nc17472167990 at Netcup for a €5 discount on your VPS order. (Operator-community-shared.)

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Worked examples

Scenario: you allocate $5,000 to your bot, run LowMoney (Mode 5) on Binance, and the bot returns +2% realized profit in the month — that’s $100.What if the month is 0%? Only out-of-pocket cost is the VPS ($13). If the month is −2% realized: you’re down $100 plus VPS = −$113. License takes nothing.These are illustrative figures, not predictions. They show the shape of cost — they do not promise a 2% month.
Scenario: you allocate $20,000, run BasicMode (Mode 4, the default), +2% realized = $400.The cost ratios shift at this capital level: VPS is rounding error, license dominates. This is one reason the recommended sweet spot is $15,000–$25,000 — that’s where the cost structure is most efficient.
Scenario: any capital, the bot trades but realized P&L over the period is $0 (winners and losers cancel out).A break-even month costs you only the VPS rent. The license is fully aligned with your outcome.
Scenario: any capital, the bot has a -3% realized period — the strategy mismatched the regime, or you held through a drawdown.Your trading loss is real, but you don’t compound it with a license fee. This is how the profit-share model is designed to behave.

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What you’d pay vs other platforms

3Commas

Tiered SaaS subscription: $22–$99/month depending on plan, regardless of whether you trade or profit. They hold your API keys.

Cryptohopper

Tiered SaaS subscription: $19–$99/month plus marketplace fees. They hold your API keys.

Hummingbot

Open-source self-hosted: €0 but requires Python development skills. No turnkey strategies, no visual editor.
unCoded’s profit-share model means:
  • A break-even or losing month costs you only ~$13 (VPS), vs. $22–$99 flat at SaaS competitors.
  • A profitable month costs more in absolute terms (because the license scales with profit), but stays competitive once you account for the SaaS subscription.
  • Architecturally, you keep ownership of your API keys and your data — which has no monetary equivalent at SaaS platforms.

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When does each model break even?

A rough break-even calculation:
  • vs. $22/month 3Commas Starter: unCoded is cheaper if your monthly profit is below ~$73 (30% × $73 ≈ $22). At higher profits, 3Commas appears nominally cheaper but holds your keys.
  • vs. $99/month 3Commas Pro: unCoded is cheaper if monthly profit is below ~$330 (30% × $330 ≈ $99).
  • vs. Hummingbot: Hummingbot is free, but the operational cost of self-coding strategies dwarfs unCoded’s profit-share for any operator who isn’t already a Python developer.
For most retail operators in the $5,000–$50,000 capital range, unCoded’s profit-share model is competitive or cheaper than tiered SaaS at typical realized profit levels — and dramatically more secure (you own the keys).

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Cost breakdown for first 3 months

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Month 1 — paid education

  • VPS: ~$13
  • Realized P&L: highly variable as you learn the bot’s rhythm
  • License: 30% of any positive realized P&L; $0 if break-even or negative
  • Plan to spend the VPS rent and possibly a small trading loss as the cost of learning. Don’t size up early.
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Month 2 — calibration

  • VPS: ~$13
  • You’re now reading the dashboard regularly, you’ve experienced both winning and losing days
  • License: 30% × realized P&L
  • Goal: clean operation, no operator-induced errors. Don’t change strategies aggressively.
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Month 3 — production discipline

  • VPS: ~$13
  • You have ~30–100 closed trades to inspect; meaningful distribution emerges
  • License: 30% × realized P&L
  • Goal: decide whether to scale capital up, add a second exchange, or change modes based on data — not on noise.
Treat the first three months as paid education, not as a sample of long-term performance. Any individual month is dominated by regime randomness. Monthly returns can swing widely; the value of unCoded compounds over multi-month operation, not in any single month.

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Frequently asked pricing questions

The license model is profit-share — there is no time-bound trial because there’s no fixed fee to “trial against.” You can:
  • Set up the stack and run in shadow mode for as long as you want — no live trades, no profit, no license charges.
  • Run live with minimal capital ($1,500) — your worst-case is small while you learn.
Most operators effectively self-trial by running with starting capital for 1–2 months before scaling up.
The Backtester is included with your unCoded license. The vendor-hosted Backtester service has reasonable fair-use limits; if you’re an operator running hundreds of backtests a day (rare), heavier-tier limits may apply. For most operators, it’s effectively free.
The license applies per-operator, not per-bot. You can run multiple TradingBots (e.g., one per exchange, one per strategy in different sub-accounts) without paying multiple licenses. The realized profit across all your bots is summed for the per-period calculation.
The VPS rent continues if the VPS keeps running. If you stop the bot but keep the VPS, no license is owed (no trading, no profit, no charge). If you destroy the VPS entirely, you pause both costs.
The profit-share model means you only ever paid because your bot earned. The “refund” question rarely applies. If a billing dispute arises (e.g., a bug in profit calculation), the support team works with you directly. See Support.
unCoded does not handle your tax reporting. Your trades happen on your exchange in your jurisdiction — you are the trader of record, you are responsible for tax reporting. The dashboard provides a Tax Report export feature with USD→EUR currency conversion via the Frankfurter ECB rates API, and a CSV/JSON export of your closed trades. See Tax Export.
The deep engine code is licensed for use, not open-source. You can deploy unCoded for your own trading; you cannot redistribute or operate it as a commercial service for third parties without a separate commercial agreement.If you’re considering a commercial-use case (a fund, a managed-service offering), contact the team — there’s a path, it just requires a different agreement.

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What’s next

Why unCoded

The architectural and philosophical case for self-hosted, profit-share-aligned trading.

Comparison

Side-by-side with 3Commas, Cryptohopper, Hummingbot, Gunbot.

Quickstart

The focused walkthrough from zero to first live trade.

FAQ

More questions — operational, technical, and investor-focused.
Last modified on May 3, 2026